The Daura Center opening

As cooler weather creeps in, and the colors of the leaves slowly begin to turn hues of orange, yellow and red, it becomes more and more apparent that fall is settling in on Northeast Georgia.





And those stunning images of autumn conjure up memories of Pierre Daura, the Catalan-American artist who was a member of the influential artistic group Cercle et Carré. Daura spent many of his years in Virginia, where he produced several beautiful landscape paintings.

Autumn Trees

Return to the Village

The Pierre Daura Center at the Georgia Museum of Art initiates and promotes the exhibition and study of the works of Pierre Daura and the contextualization of his oeuvre and career into the history of his time and place. Recently the museum named Gioncarlo Fiorenza as the new Pierre Daura Curator of European art and the director of the Pierre Daura Center.

On Dec. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Georgia Museum of Art, we will officially open the Pierre Daura Center with a reception honoring this new beginning. Fiorenza will give a brief lecture on Daura's life and his works. This event is free and open to the public, and we hope you'll come join us for this celebration.

American Impressionism podcast

The podguide tour of our Rachel Cosby Conway (permanent collection) Gallery is also now available for download. The Conway Gallery currently features some of our best paintings from the era of American Impressionism. In order for you to enjoy the podguide without visiting the Georgia Museum of Art, I have included several images here.
You can download the podcast, in mp3 format, [here].

Images:
(1) Gallery view showing the paintings by George Inness, Ralph Albert Blakelock, and Thomas Moran.
(2) Detailed close-up of the Blakelock painting.
(3) The William Louis Sonntag painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(4) James A. McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), Rose and Red: The Barber’s Shop, Lyme Regis, 1895, Oil on panel, 4 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, gift of Alfred H. Holbrook GMOA 1945.96
(5) Mary Cassatt (American, 1845-1926), Study for “The Sun Bath,” n.d., Oil on canvas, 15 x 23 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; extended loan from the Joan M. MacGillivray 1957 Trust GMOA 2002.115E
(6) Gallery view showing the paintings by William M. Chase, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson.
(7) John H. Twachtman (American, 1853-1902), The Little Bridge, ca. 1896, Oil on canvas, 25 x 25 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, gift of Alfred H. Holbrook GMOA 1945.90
(8) Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935), Bridge at Old Lyme, 1908, Oil on canvas, 24 x 27 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, gift of Alfred H. Holbrook GMOA 1945.47

Jay Robinson podcast

The podguide tour of the small Jay Robinson exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art is now available...several days before the show officially opens to the public.

I already posted about the exhibition [here]. That post included three images from the exhibition. Here are two more...these are both drawings...in lo-res format:


Both works are by Jay Robinson (American, born 1915), and are on extended loan from the collection of Jason Schoen, Miami, Florida. (left) Quality Music Shop, Washington, D.C., 1943, Graphite on paper, 12 ½ x 15 ½ inches, GMOA 2005.93E; (right) Three Dimensional Forms in Space, 1946, Ink on yellow paper, 22 ½ x 27 ½ inches, GMOA 2005.101E.

Unfortunately, this podguide was not recorded, like the George Bellows one this summer, in the cushy and elite confines of a sound studio at UGA's New Media Institute. So, if it sounds like some guy just sitting at his desk, that might be because I was. In an ideal world, you would download the file to your mp3 player, bring the player into the museum, and take a tour of the exhibition while listening.

The podcast, in an mp3 format, can be downloaded from [here].

Art (Rosenbaum) exclusive

From just a few minutes ago...Art Rosenbaum (left) and GMOA curator of exhibitions, Dennis Harper, strolling through the ongoing set-up of the retrospective Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum...opening to the public this Saturday. The exhibition is also featured in this week's Columns, the UGA faculty/staff newspaper.

The big "party" for the autumn exhibitions at GMOA is Wed., Oct. 25th.